Yes, it is official. We're building a house!!! Where? In my parents backyard. Literally...
It's great. My first reaction to building a house of course is something like this:
So somewhere between really excited and really freaked out.
As with most of my blogs, this is going to be very much a photo journey. So let the journey begin!
How about we start with an End-Result Visual? Of course we've made a FEW changes (no stone, all brick except under the porch, no porch railing, different shutter/door color of course, bigger windows, no staggered wall on the left) but all in all the same. :)
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| This is what our house will look like (in theory) |
For this first entry we'll get to the foundation. Be warned it's a lot of pictures. I guess the first question to start with is "Where are we putting said house?"
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| The husband and dad measuring and getting the layout figured. |
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| Looks good to me? :) |
Now that that's kinda figured out, time to clear out this brush...
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| Hard at it ;) |
It was shortly after this that the severity of my husband's poison ivy allergy was revealed to me.... but the whelps finally "disappeared" and turned to scars after about a month at which point we (my mom) decided to call in the professionals (good call mom)...
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| "This is a fertile land and we will thrive. We will rule over all this land and we will call it... This Land." |
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| A marvelous transformation... hopefully I'll have a road there someday. :) |
SOME of us MAY have been getting impatient for progress at this point so "they" were given evidence of a ground breaking (even if it was just by my dad on the tractor)
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| Look! Broken ground! |
Oh my goodness.....
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| Stuff! |
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| Things!! |
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| People!!! |
Here come the rapid fire pictures...
